Further Readings
Conniff, R. "What's in a Name? Sometimes More than Meets the Eye." Smithsonian, December 1996, 66-70. A humorous look at how living things are named. Dyer, B. D., and R. A. Obar. Tracing the History of Eukaryotic Cells. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994. A good overview of the problems involved in trying to learn about the early history of life. Gee, H. In Search of Deep Time: Beyond the Fossil Record to a New History of Life. New York: Free Press, 1999. Discusses the controversy of how to organize and arrange living things on the tree of life. Gould, S. J. "What Is a Species?" Discover 12 (1992):40-44. One famous evolutionist's view on a question that biologists are still debating a century after Darwin. Hayashi, A. M. "On the Origins of Subspecies." Scientific American, March 1999, 21-22. This article explores the process of naming new categories of life.		Knowlton, N. "Confusion of Kingdoms." Nature 359 (October 1992):488ff. How many kingdoms are there, really? Depends on who you talk to. May, R. "How Many Species Inhabit the Earth?" Scientific American, October 1992, 42-48. A good guess at how many species exist now, and what the implications are for conservation. McDermott, J. "A Biologist Whose Heresy Redraws Earth's Tree of Life." Smithsonian, August 1989, 72-80. Lynn Margulis's innovative approach to endosymbiosis has revolutionized the way we think about organisms. Woese, C., O. Kandler, and M. Wheelis. "Towards a Natural System of Organism: Proposal for the Domains Archaea, Bacteria, and Eucarya." Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. US 87 (1990):4576-79. Conveys much of the excitement of the taxonomy being generated from molecular analysis; an alternative to six kingdoms.
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